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enAmherst Password Ruleshttps://www.amherst.edu/help/passwords/rules/node/189504
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="special-notice2"><span class="orange-heading">An Easy Recipe for a Secure Password</span><br>1. Take two common words; e.g., 'hours' and 'tree.'<br>2. Add a number, and use as your password; e.g., '9hourstree,' 'hours9tree,' or 'treehours9.'<br>NOTE that you can't use words that form a natural compound, such as 'yard' and 'arm.'</p>
<p>In addition to being between eight and 32 characters, a valid Amherst password must obey the following rules:</p>
<ul><li>Include at least two of the following four types of characters:
<ul><li>lower case alphabetic (a to z)</li>
<li>upper case alphabetic (A to Z)</li>
<li>numeric (0 to 9)</li>
<li>special ( !@#$%^&amp;*() )</li>
</ul></li>
<li>When stripped of any beginning and/or ending numerals and special characters, the remaining letters must not be a common password (e.g., <span class="example">111111</span> or <span class="example">qwerty</span>) or an English, French, Spanish, or German word.</li>
<ul><li>For example, <span class="example">1%bonjour6</span> fails because, once you strip off the leading and trailing special characters and numerals, what you have left--<span class="example">bonjour</span>--is a word you find in a French dictionary.</li>
<li>Note that <span class="example">bon4jour</span> <em>is</em> a legal password because numerals and special characters are only stripped from the beginning and end of the proposed password. <span class="example">bon4jour</span> isn't found in any dictionary.</li>
</ul><li>You can’t reuse any of your previous ten passwords</li>
<li>Ten minutes must have elapsed since you last changed your password.</li>
</ul><p class="special-notice3">PASSWORD LOCKOUT POLICY<br>If<strong> 20 failed attempts</strong> to log in to any user account occur within a ten-minute period, that account will be blocked from all College supported electronic resources for the next <strong>ten minutes </strong>so that IT can verify that no one is trying to gain unauthorized access to our network. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3">password</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6270">employee</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/12967">rules</a></div></div></div>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000rmryan189504 at https://www.amherst.eduhttps://www.amherst.edu/help/passwords/rules/node/189504#comments